These may look like Lego pieces, but don’t be deceived: the smart building blocks are made of flexible plastic and stuffed with fluidics channels and electronics, designed to build simple, adaptable ...

Robots aren't always the most delicate of machines when handling fragile objects. They don't have the lightness of touch of humans. But that could be about to change thanks to a new development in ...

A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots. These tiny robots have the ...

Robots are usually built from materials with fixed properties. Once a robot is assembled, its stiffness, flexibility and ...

Every January, CES brings us a laundry list of innovative, intriguing products that’ll probably never see the light of day. Enabot, an under-the-radar robot company, seems to be bucking that trend at ...

Build Smart Robots is an online community aimed at helping people improve their robot designs. You can join groups for different types of robots where you can share ideas, photos and comments on a ...